Fernweh/Heimweh

Expermimental animation film staged with a live sound creation performance, 46min.
Country : France-Austria.
Languages : English, german, french
Director : Florine Mougel
Sound performance: Daniel Stimmeder(Hurdy Gurdy, Electronics), Tanja Fuchs(Voice, Toys), Moritz Morast(Drums, Percussion)
Made out of personal archive pictures and accidental encounters, the film shuttles between
wanderlust and homesick, up and down, in and out, or was it the opposite ? It’s a passenger’s smooth poetry on human desire and confusion. It’s a composite of residual experiences, a tale of travelers, beyond space and even further.
The sharp black and white collage aesthetic refers to the silent surrealistic films. But the digital image composed with the use of a computer, is pixelated, incarcerated roughly. Worlds coexist alongside and glare at each other. It is fantasy: superposition of time and spaces. Always living in a transition state, looking for home.
The live performance stage the sound of the film. The performers are not only creating the music of the film, but they aslo interprete all the dialogues and voice over as an additive part of the story. Digital fixed media and live art melt together in order to create a temporal paradigm.